“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Xunzi in the Xunzi (book)
Misattributed, Chinese
“I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful… vegetable!”
— Robert Ludlum, book The Bourne Identity
Source: The Bourne Identity
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